The following reply was made to PR pkg/36259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems 
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:33:31 +0700

     Date:        Thu,  3 May 2007 08:25:03 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     Message-ID:  <20070503082503.0BFF463B853@narn.NetBSD.org>
 
   |  > Would upstream really reject such a patch?
   |  
   |  I can't see why they would want to fix linux-only scripts.
 
 Perhaps they'd prefer to be correct, even if it actually changes
 nothing.
 
 NetBSD does that doesn't it, fix things to be portable and
 correct, even though it works fine (for us) the other way?
 And even where no-one else (we think) would ever want to
 use the code.
 
 Why would you assume they're necessarily going to be different?
 
 kre